The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-09
A GLASHING OF GIANTS.
HARTINGTON TO TAKE UP GLAD
STONES PROPOSAL.

The Government Debating on Its
Next Move-John Bright's Opinion OF
Gladstone Evictions at Bodyke Con-
tinued-Gunboats to be Employed
Also-Liberals Displeased.
LONDON, June Sit is expected that the
irish Land bill will reach the House of Com
mons next week and that the government
will ask the second reading of that measure
before taking up the final stage of the
Crimes bill. Lord Harrington will
speak at Manchester on June "a with refer
ence to Mr.. Gladstone's proposal for CON
ference
JOHN BRIGHT ON GLADSTONE.
John Bright has written letter in which
he says: "blr. Gladstone, while in Wales.
spoke as though there was no province of
Ulster and no Protestants or loyal Catho-
lie population in ireland. 1t is sad to see so
great a man descend to artifices so trans
parent to deceive his countrymen."
LIBERALS DIsPLEAsEp
Mr.. Gladstone's recent tour does not seem
10 have forwarded the cause of the Liberal
reunion. The English Libel al Association
has passed resolutions regretting that while
Mr. Gladstone makes minor concessions with
reference to his Irish bill of 1886, he adheres
to the plan for an Irish Parliament, and ex-
pressing the conviction that his speeches in
Wales will discourage the hope of the re-
union, which the Liberal-UnioniSts desire
A CHANGE OF FRONT.
Lord Harrington and Mr.. Chamberlain
had an interview with the members of the
government yesterday and it is reported
that the result was the dropping of the
venue clause of the crimes bill in favor of
the provision for a trial by the Commission
IF Judges.
UNIoNIsTs MAKING CONCESSIONS.
The Unionists are willing to support the
proposals TO substitute for the change of
venue clause of the crimes bill a
clause providing for the trial by q
commission of judges. Mr. w. H. Smith
spoke at a banquet of the Constitutional
Union last evening He gave no indication
of the measures he proposed to adopt in re-
gard to the crimes bill, but said it was the
governments duty to press forward the bill
until a final verdict had been obtained. He
gratefully acknowledged the sacrifices made
by the Unlonists in support of the govern
ment
DEPLoRABLE EVICTION SCENES.
DUBLIN, June S-The gunboat Banter
took the Sheriff of County Glare and a body
of police to Clare Island to-day, where they
evicted twelve tenants. The scenes wit
messed while the writs of eviction were being
executed were deplorable
THE WOMEN DEFY THEM.
During the evictions at Bodyke to-day
two women belonging to the rushy family
deied the Sheriff and police for an hour
by throwing water and whitewash upon
them. The family was finally evicted and
the women were arrested.
BISHOP wALsH's GOOD ADVICE.
Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, in sending
to Mr.. Harrington, Secretary of the Irish
National League, the 9200 which had been
forwarded to him by the Irish residents of
Kimberly, Africa, together with a letter
expressing the hope that the people of Ire
land would avoid crime, despite coercion.
trusts that the moderate councils of Parnell
Harrington and other political leaders will
not be thrown away 'as long as the national
movement is kept within its present lines, y
writes the archbishop. ''Irishmen may
safely defy most Of the vicious efforts made
to SANDER them. At Rome, especially, may
they disregard, with the utmost confidence,
the efforts to persuade the Pope that the
Nadonalists are revolutionists.
DAvITT SAYS ITS ''TIT FOR TAT"
Mr. Davitt made another speech at Bodyke
to-day He said he had received a letter
1om Mrs. Davitt intimating that If he
should be arrested she would speak in his
stead He said that for the last eight years
ne had counseled moderation, but the brazen
English Governors had given the Irish kicks
and insults for their moderation. As soon
as the Tory blackguards showed modera-
ton, he would return the favor.